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Adolf HitlerLeader of the Nazi Party

• In 1921, Hitler took over the party DAP, which
  was the Germans Working party. He gave the
  party a new name The National Socialist German
  Workers Party. This was a shortened to the
  acronym Nazi from the first syllable of
  NAtional and the second syllable of soZIalist.
• In the Development of the Nazi state, Hitlers
  personality and ideas naturally played and
  important role. One of his most critical beliefs
  was in the social Darwinism the idea that
  within society or politics constant struggle
  would lead the fittest to survive.
• After losing WWII, Hitler blamed Jews and
  disabled people for all loses and all problems.
  He wanted a pure and perfect population and
  therefore came out with The Final Solution.
• Reinhard Heydrich and Rolf Otto Schiller were
  some of the key SS
• Majors who helped Hitler carry out his plan.
• Matthew Hughes, and Chris Mann. Inside Hitlers
  Germany Life Under the Third Reich. Virginia
  Dulles, 2002

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Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany, a nation with a Jewish
population of 566,000. March 24, 1933 - German
Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler
dictatorial powers. April 1, 1933 Nazis stage
boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.April 26,
1933 - The Gestapo is born, created by Hermann
Göring in the German state of Prussia.July 14,
1933 - Nazi Party is declared the only legal
party in Germany Also, Nazis pass Law to strip
Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German
citizenship.In July - Nazis pass law allowing
for forced sterilization of those found by a
Hereditary Health Court to have genetic
defects.Sept 29, 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from
owning land.Jan 24, 1934 - Jews are banned from
the German Labor Front.May 17, 1934 - Jews not
allowed national health insurance.Aug 19, 1934 -
Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from
German voters approving his new powers.July 22,
1934 - Jews are prohibited from getting legal
qualifications.Aug 19, 1934 - Hitler receives a
90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters
approving his new powers.June 26, 1935 - Nazis
pass law allowing forced abortions on women to
prevent them from passing on hereditary
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• A HOLOCAUST TIMELINE

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• Sept 27, 1938 - Jews are prohibited from all
  legal practices.
• Oct 5, 1938 - Law requires Jewish passports to be
  stamped with a large red "J."
• Nov 15, 1938 - Jewish pupils are expelled from
  all non-Jewish German schools.
• Feb 21, 1939 - Nazis force Jews to hand over all
  gold and silver items.
• April 30, 1939 - Jews lose rights as tenants and
  are relocated into Jewish houses.
• In May - St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930
  Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the
  United States and other countries and returns to
  Europe.
• Sept 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop.
  3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning
  of SS activity in Poland.
• Sept 1, 1939 - Jews in Germany are forbidden to
  be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in
  summer.
• Sept 23, 1939 - German Jews are forbidden to own
  wireless (radio) sets.
• Oct 6, 1939 - Proclamation by Hitler on the
  isolation of Jews.
• In Jan - A pogrom in Romania results in over
  2,000 Jews killed
• June 29/30 - Romanian troops conduct a pogrom
  against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing
  10,000.
• Sept 1, 1941 - German Jews were ordered to wear
  yellow stars.
• Sept 27/28 - 23,000 Jews killed at
  Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.
• In Nov - SS Einsatzgruppe B reports a tally of
  45,476 Jews killed.
• Dec 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United
  States. Roosevelt then declares war on Germany
  saying, "Never before has there been a greater
  challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The
  U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and will
  concentrate nearly 90 percent of its military
  resources to defeat Hitler.
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• Jan 31, 1942 - SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally
  of 229,052 Jews killed.
• June 30 and July 2 - The New York Times reports
  via the London Daily Telegraph that over
• 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by Nazis.
• Oct 22, 1942 - SS put down a revolt at
  Sachsenhausen by a group of Jews about to be sent
  to
• Auschwitz.
• In Nov - The mass killing of 170,000 Jews in the
  area of Bialystok.
• Dec 10, 1942 - The first transport of Jews from
  Germany arrives at Auschwitz.
• In Dec - Exterminations at Belzec cease after an
  estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered.
• he camp is then dismantled, plowed over and
  planted.
• In 1943 - The number of Jews killed by SS
  Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use
• special units of slave laborers to dig up and
  burn the bodies to remove all traces.
• April 1943 - Newly built gas chamber/crematories
  open at Auschwitz. With their completion, the
• four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily
  capacity of 4,756 bodies.
• Jan 27, 1945 - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
  By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons,
• including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered
  there.
• April 30, 1945 - Hitler commits suicide in his
  Berlin bunker
• April 30, 1945 - Americans free 33,000 inmates
  from concentration camps.
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Newspaper Headlines

• In Sep 4, 1933 Alzada Comstock wrote an article
  about Nazi Germanys Recovery Program
• The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune wrote a 5
  Million Jews Slain by Nazis at Auschwitz,
  Hungarian Says article on Wednesday April 11,
  1945
• Der Stürmer published The time is near when a
  machine will go into motion which is going to
  prepare a grave for the world's criminal - Judah
  - from which there will be no resurrection."
  January 1940

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Direct Quotes from people in Response to the
Genocide

• This war no longer bears the characteristics of
  former inter-European conflicts. It is one of
  those elemental conflicts which usher in a new
  millennium and which shake the world once in a
  thousand years. -Hitler speaking to the
  Reichstag, April 26, 1942.
• "When Hitler shouted "on to victory" he was
  urging his countrymen to exterminate Jews, making
  way for the "pure" Aryan race. That sick agenda
  was no joke Six million Jews perished in Europe
  before the world defeated Hitler.Hitler used
  soldiers, fear and torture to advance his agenda
  and hid the evidence by burning the bodies of
  innocent Jews in ovens or by dumping them in mass
  graves. It took a bloody world war to stop the
  Holocaust. Tens of thousands of soldiers died in
  that war, including thousands of Americans.Why
  did Hitler and Goebbels hate Jews? Because they
  were Jews, period. Their hatred still lives in
  the minds of some demented admirers of Hitler's
  racist doctrine."
• The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Nov. 8 2006.
• Bard, Mitchell G. The Complete Idiots Guide to
  World War II. Indianapolis, Indiana, 1999.
• When Kids Play With Evil, Adults Must Take It
  Seriously."  Editorial.  Knight Ridder Tribune
  Business News.  Washington  8 Nov. 2006, pg. 1. 
  Proquest.  Pasadena City College, Shatford
  Library.  9 Nov. 2006.

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Genocide Photojournalist and Reporters

• Some of the Journalist and photographers who
  covered the genocide were
• Erich Salomon      Died 1944      
  Photojournalist
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• Philip Mechanicus     Died 1945     Journalist
• Milena Jesenská     Died 1944     Journalist
  
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust
  _victims

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The Victims
Adolf Hitler's regime, the Third Reich, killed
approximately 6 million Jews, and 7 million other
Europeans in the Death Camps from 1933 to 1945.

• The languages most spoken by the victims affected
  were
• Byelorussian
• Croatian
• Czech
• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Hungarian

• Italian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Romany
• Rumanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovak Ukrainian
• Yiddish.
• Greek
• Hebrew

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International Response

• Evian Conference The Evian Conference was
  convened at initiative of the US President
  Franklin D. Roosevelt in July 1938 to discuss the
  problem of Jewish refugees. For nine days
  delegates from thirty two countries met at
  Evian-les-Brains, France. However not much was
  accomplished, since most western countries were
  reluctant to accept Jewish refugees. The
  conference did not pass a resolution condemning
  German treatment of the Jews.
• The International Red Cross did relatively little
  to save Jews during the Holocaust and discounted
  reports of the organized Nazi genocide, such as
  of the murder of Polish Jewish prisoners that
  took place at Lublin that the Red Cross
  discounted. At the time, the Red Cross justified
  its actions by suggesting that aiding Jews
  prisoners would harm its ability to help other
  Allied POWs. In addition, the Red Cross claimed
  that if it would take a major stance to improve
  the situation of those European Jews, the
  neutrality of Switzerland, where the
  International Red Cross was based, would be
  jeopardized. Today, the Red Cross acknowledges
  its passivity during the Holocaust, and has
  apologized for this.
• Pope Pius XII Although he did not publicly speak
  out against the murder of the Jews during the
  Holocaust, the Vatican did take action to save
  many Jews in Italy from deportation, including
  sheltering several hundred Jews in the catacombs
  of St. Peters Basilica. In his Christmas
  addresses of 1941 and 1942, the pontiff was
  forceful on the topic but did not mention the
  Nazis by name. The Pope encouraged the bishops to
  speak out against the Nazi regime and to open the
  religious houses in their dioceses to hide Jews.
  In recent years, the Vatican has expressed its
  remorse for not speaking out with more authority
  against the genocide.
• Throughout the war, the Allied Powers never tried
  bombing the death camp of Auschwitz or the train
  tracks leading there. The Allies said that their
  planes couldnt reach the death camp from the
  airbase and that an airstrike would not be
  precise enough to ensure the safety of the
  inmates. Many accusers state that bombing
  Auschwitz, even if they would have killed all the
  Jewish inmates, would all together save many more
  Jews, since the Nazis kept gassing Jews for a
  long time.
• Makinda, Sam. Following postnational signs the
  trail of human rights. Futures 37 (Nov.
  2005)943-957.
• Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell, America and
  the Age of Genocide. New York Basic Books, 2002.

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Effects to the Genocide

• The Holocaust played an important role to the
  creation the United Nations
• The United Nations, also known as the the League
  of Nations, was the first international
  organization created to maintain peace on the
  novel idea of "collective security. Formed in
  the wake of World War I, the League failed in its
  primary mission -- keeping the world at peace.
• By the end of WWII, in 1945, the war killed an
  estimated 61 million people in Europe, Asia and
  North Africa, the Holocaust itself having 7
  million deaths.
• The United Nations became official on October
  24,1945 -- the first United Nations Day -- when
  the charter came into force after ratification by
  all of The Big Five -- the US, the USSR, the UK,
  China and France -- and a majority of the other
  conference attendees.
• Timeline.pbs.org/kofiannan

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A HOLOCAUST EMBLEM

• The Star of David is a representation of Jewish
  people.  Nazis forced Jews to wear a yellow badge
  of the Star of David so they may identify them. 
  The Red Swastika placement in the middle of the
  Star of David is a representation of Nazi party
  staining Jewish history.  While the Swastika is
  normally black, it is made red to represent the
  blood-stain memory the party now has.  The symbol
  is a reminder of how painful the memory of the
  Holocaust is.

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Concentration Camps and countries involved in the
Holocaust
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Foods from the Country/Region where the Genocide
took place

• Bigos is a traditional stew typical of Polish
  cuisine and Lithuanian cuisine that many consider
  the Polish National Dish. Typical ingredients
  include fresh and fermented white cabbage various
  cuts of meat and Sausage, Tomatoes, Honey and
  Mushroom.
• Borscht is a vegetable soup, usually including
  beet roots, which give it a strong red color. The
  soup is called barsciai in Lithuanian, is often
  given as Borschtsch in German (however in East
  Prussia where the dish was native it was called
  Bartsch), barszcz in Polish, borshch in Russian
  and Ukrainian, and bors in Romanian.
• Oszczypek is a smoked cheese from Poland and
  Slovakia. It is an important symbol of the
  cultural and culinary heritage of Poland's
  Podhale region in the Tatra mountains (around the
  town of Zakopane).  Oscypek is created from
  sheep's milk, although cow's milk is sometimes
  added. The original oscypek is always made with
  unpasteurized sheep's milk, which is first turned
  into cottage cheese. This is then repeatedly
  rinsed with boiling water and squeezed. After
  this, the mass is pressed into wooden,
  spindle-shaped forms in decorative shapes. The
  forms are then placed in a brine-filled barrel
  for a night or two, after which they are placed
  close to the roof in a special wooden hut and
  cured in hot smoke for up to 14 days.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "A Holocaust Lesson When Kids Play With Evil,
  Adults Must Take It Seriously."  Editorial. 
  Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 
  Washington  8 Nov. 2006, pg. 1. Proquest. 
  Pasadena City College, Shatford Library.  9 Nov.
  2006 Bard, Mitchell G. The Complete Idiots Guide
  to World War II. Indianapolis, Indiana, 1999.
• Bugajski, Janusz.  "Poland."  World Book
  Millennium 2000.  2000. 
• Makinda, Sam. Following postnational signs the
  trail of human rights. Futures 37 (Nov.
  2005)943-957.
• Matthew Hughes, and Chris Mann. Inside Hitlers
  Germany Life Under the Third Reich.
  Virginia Dulles, 2002
• Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell, America and
  the Age of Genocide. New York Basic Books, 2002.
• Sheehan, James J.  "Germany."  World Book
  Millennium 2000.  2000.
• Timeline.pbs.org/kofiannan When Kids Play With
  Evil, Adults Must Take It Seriously." 
  Editorial.  Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 
  Washington  8 Nov. 2006, pg. 1.  Proquest. 
  Pasadena City College, Shatford Library.  9 Nov.
  2006.
• wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_victims
• Wikipedia. 25 Oct. 2006. 2 Nov. 2006.
  lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borschtgt.
• Wikipedia. 29 Sept. 2006. 2 Nov. 2006.
  lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscypekgt.
• www.heritageabroad.gov/projects/poland3.html
• www.historyplace.com/worlwar2